Mishra later tweeted that the Delhi Police, which was in a hurry to arrest Gulab Singh before Kejriwal's rally, had now told the legislator that they would return to Delhi by train when tickets were available.

Kejriwal, who met families who lost their sons to police firing on Patidar protesters last year, is set to address the party's first rally in Varachha, which has a sizeable population of Patidars and has been a hotspot of the Patel agitation.

A major Patel rally in honour of Amit Shah, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and state BJP President Jitu Vaghani in Surat was disrupted last month by the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) activists.

Delhi Police's Joint Commissioner of Police (South Western Range) Dependra Pathak told IANS that Singh was the 'kingpin' of an extortion gang, which used to extort money from builders after threatening them to demolish their buildings and under-construction projects falling in his constituency.

Police said an extortion case was registered against him and his associates in Bindapur Police Station on September 13, on a complaint from local property dealers that they were being threatened by four persons at gun point. Police reached the spot and arrested three of them, while one managed to escape.

"They were later identified as Satish and Jagdish Chander who work in Singh's office and Devender who is his personal driver. They all confessed to working for Singh. Chander used a pistol to extort money on gun point, while Devender used Singh's personal vehicle which has a MLA numberplate," said a senior police officer.

--IANS

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Mishra later tweeted that the Delhi Police, which was in a hurry to arrest Gulab Singh before Kejriwal's rally, had now told the legislator that they would return to Delhi by train when tickets were available.

Kejriwal, who met families who lost their sons to police firing on Patidar protesters last year, is set to address the party's first rally in Varachha, which has a sizeable population of Patidars and has been a hotspot of the Patel agitation.

A major Patel rally in honour of Amit Shah, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and state BJP President Jitu Vaghani in Surat was disrupted last month by the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) activists.

Delhi Police's Joint Commissioner of Police (South Western Range) Dependra Pathak told IANS that Singh was the 'kingpin' of an extortion gang, which used to extort money from builders after threatening them to demolish their buildings and under-construction projects falling in his constituency.

Police said an extortion case was registered against him and his associates in Bindapur Police Station on September 13, on a complaint from local property dealers that they were being threatened by four persons at gun point. Police reached the spot and arrested three of them, while one managed to escape.

"They were later identified as Satish and Jagdish Chander who work in Singh's office and Devender who is his personal driver. They all confessed to working for Singh. Chander used a pistol to extort money on gun point, while Devender used Singh's personal vehicle which has a MLA numberplate," said a senior police officer.

--IANS

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(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

Mishra later tweeted that the Delhi Police, which was in a hurry to arrest Gulab Singh before Kejriwal's rally, had now told the legislator that they would return to Delhi by train when tickets were available.

Kejriwal, who met families who lost their sons to police firing on Patidar protesters last year, is set to address the party's first rally in Varachha, which has a sizeable population of Patidars and has been a hotspot of the Patel agitation.

A major Patel rally in honour of Amit Shah, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and state BJP President Jitu Vaghani in Surat was disrupted last month by the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) activists.

Delhi Police's Joint Commissioner of Police (South Western Range) Dependra Pathak told IANS that Singh was the 'kingpin' of an extortion gang, which used to extort money from builders after threatening them to demolish their buildings and under-construction projects falling in his constituency.

Police said an extortion case was registered against him and his associates in Bindapur Police Station on September 13, on a complaint from local property dealers that they were being threatened by four persons at gun point. Police reached the spot and arrested three of them, while one managed to escape.

"They were later identified as Satish and Jagdish Chander who work in Singh's office and Devender who is his personal driver. They all confessed to working for Singh. Chander used a pistol to extort money on gun point, while Devender used Singh's personal vehicle which has a MLA numberplate," said a senior police officer.

--IANS

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(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)